Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Bowden was born on 5 July 1835, in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, her father, William Bowden, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Churchill, was 33. She married Edward George Cassity on 6 May 1858, in Genoa, Nance, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 5 February 1892, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Elizabeth Bowden in household of Wm Bowden, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Elizabeth Bowden, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Elizabeth Baker Webb, "Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1850
Historical Boundaries 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called Bowden or Bowdon. Bowden in Devon and Derbyshire and Bowdon in Cheshire are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + dūn ‘hill’, i.e. ‘hill shaped like a bow’; one in Leicestershire (Bugedone in Domesday Book) comes, according to Ekwall, from the Old English personal name Būga (masculine) or Bucge (feminine) + dūn. There are also Scottish places of this name, but there are comparatively few bearers of the surname Bowden north of the border. In England, the surname is found most frequently in Lancashire and in the West Country. In Devon and Cornwall there has been some confusion with the Norman personal name Baldwin .
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill, from Middle English buve dun ‘above the hill’ (Old English būfan dūne, as in the placename Bowden, Wiltshire).
Scottish: habitational name from Bowden in Roxburghshire, named from Old English bōthl ‘dwelling-house’ + Old English denu ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Elizabeth Bowden was born 5 July 1835 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England to William Bowden and Elizabeth Churchill. Immigration from Liverpool to New Orleans, arriving 12 January, 1855, on the ship …
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